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...brilliant young college graduate with a degree of innocence (Dustin Hoffman) returns to his parents' home in Los Angeles. There he is assaulted by fatuous friends of the family who entice him with offers. Most are commercial: "I have only one word for you," burbles a Babbittical businessman, "plastics." But one offer is sexual. Mrs. Robin son (Anne Bancroft), the neurotic wife of his father's business partner, lures...
...Battle Cry and Exodus. The men are a bit on the wooden side, the women and all the subplots largely unbelievable, but once again the West is triumphant-just barely. Unfortunately, for his purposes Uris finds it necessary to portray France's Charles de Gaulle as a fatuous numskull, and though le grand Charles has his share of faults, congenital stupidity is not one of them. Besides, a writer of Uris' commercial talents should think twice before trying to put words in the mouth of one of the master rhetoricians...
Many profiles are fatuous. They open with anecdotes, ramble a while, then close with an anecdote or tag that is just dripping with Meaning. Collect all the last paragraphs of Yearbook articles and you'd have either the Key to the Cosmos or something Elbert Hubbard would have been happy to print...
...once thought I knew the answer to this question; but after reading the fatuous rationalizations offered for I'affaire CIA-NSA, I'm not quite sure. Innocence, it seems, is strictly for the birds (of prey. . . .) Martin Kilson Assistant Professor of Government
...simply stated moral theme. In Snow White, Disney and his staff met the challenge of creating believable characters. Each of the seven dwarfs, from sober-sided Doc to dim-bulb Dopey, had a distinct personality. In Cinderella, a handful of Disney creations nearly stole the show: the bloodthirsty but fatuous cat Lucifer, and the nimble mice, Jaq and Gus-Gus. Millions of children the world over grew up convinced that Disney wrote as well as drew such tales as The Sleeping Beauty and Peter Pan. And there are grown men and women today who, recalling Fantasia, cannot hear the Dance...